Full year results from Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB1), released after the market close on Monday, failed to ignite investor interest despite showing encouraging progress.The acquisition of a majority stake in Fluent Money Group also failed to generate any enthusiasm, with the shares drifting 1% lower to £11.07.OLD NEWSPart of the reason for the muted share price response was the fact the 2021...

Income is a big motivating factor for people to invest in the markets. The idea of securing a regular stream of cash which can be used to pay the bills or reinvested to help boost capital returns is an attractive one.However, this income is not guaranteed and the last two months or so of dividend cuts, suspensions and deferrals have seen billions of pounds worth of payouts from UK stocks taken...

Fresh from joining the stock market in April 2018, shares in SimplyBiz (SBIZ:AIM) are starting to gain traction as more people become aware of its story.The £137m business provides compliance and business support services to over 3,400 UK directly authorised independent financial advisers (IFAs). It is a beneficiary of changing regulation and has a high quality earnings stream with 92%...

'It has been a good year, but it is still early days,' says Rosemary Banyard, manager of the CFP SDL Free Spirit (GB00BYYQC271) fund, a £7.2m OEIC which has just celebrated its one-year anniversary (3 Jan 2018).The investment objective of this concentrated fund is to achieve real growth in capital and income over the long term, through investments mainly in UK equities listed on the LSE, AIM...

A handful of technology stocks, a make-up supplier, a mortgage adviser and a pharmaceutical firm are among a list of smaller company shares expected perform strongly over the coming few months.The nine featured companies are highlights from a quantitative number-crunching exercise conducted by analysts at N+1 Singer.The stockbroker regularly scans the lower end of the market cap spectrum for...

Our best ideas portfolio has significantly outperformed the stock market in 2015. This shows the power of good stock picking. Our actively-managed Plays of the Week tips have delivered an average 7.1% return on a 12-month basis, excluding dividends.In comparison, the FTSE All-Share is down by a miserable 1.4% over the same period. When we adjust the FTSE All-Share performance so the comparison...

Frothiness in the initial public offering (IPO) market means investors need to be especially careful when looking at recently floated stocks.Cash shells are coming on to the market and surging to fantasy valuations, as covered in Agenda - Gate Ventures.Flying distinctly under the radar is Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB1:AIM), listed in November. Profitable, fantastically cash generative and...

Home loan broker Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB1:AIM) reports an impressive set of maiden results and is confident of more growth this year.Floated on AIM in December 2014, the ?92 million business grew profit-before-tax 52% to ?8 million excluding initial public offering (IPO) related costs.Adjusted earnings per share was 12.7p and a dividend of 2p is proposed.Chief executive and co-founder...

Latham (James) (LTHM:AIM) 577.5pSheet and hardwood supplier Latham has been consistently profitable for the past 10 years, more than doubling operating profit in the same period. The Hemel Hempstead-based company is expected to grow earnings per share 19% to 39.5p this year.Leaf Clean Energy (LEAF:AIM) 34pRenewable energy investor Leaf Clean is a closed-end fund in run-off. At a meeting in...